THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW
getTV, 8:00 p.m. ET
RERUN RETURN: getTV already has unearthed some long-dormant TV Westerns for our enjoyment, and now it’s tackling other TV genres – specifically, the vintage variety show and talk show. Monday nights, beginning tonight, getTV presents 8 p.m. ET showings of The Judy Garland Show from 1963-64. It opens with a repeat of the premiere, which itself opens with a full orchestra performing a full-length overture, before Judy Garland even appears (ah, for TV’s slower, less frenetic days). Every episode of this series eventually will be shown, in full. Also eventually, on this first broadcast, Mickey Rooney shows up as the evening’s guest (reuniting with his former cinema costar for the first time in 18 years), and participates in a full hour of nostalgic reverie. At 10 p.m. ET Mondays, getTV has added another jewel to its crown of golden oldies: The Merv Griffin Show, starting with tonight’s program from the late Sixties, which features Carl Reiner and Robert F. Kennedy (who would be assassinated within the year). Both conversations are fascinating, if you give them the chance – and the time – to develop. And in between, at 9 p.m. ET, random variety show specials and samples. Tonight: Carol Channing and Pearl Bailey on Broadway.